Tales from the crypt

Krug · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:08 am **Post subject:**

Thanks Avatar for those.

Looks like we might get lucky in 2005 with TFTC:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=2178

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:02 pm **Post subject:**

its about bloody time they do something.

@avatar thx for the links

Krug · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 3:44 pm **Post subject:**

Somebody on the forum over at Tvshowsondvd.com seems to think that the first 3 series are already available on DVD in Canada, but I had a bit of a search but couldn't find anything

Lets hope that if they do release them they'll be in season sets and not shitty compilations, I hate it when they do that! Keep it chronological I say...

...anyway, wait until I move house again, then I'll start ripping eps from the DVDRs. Give it a couple of weeks, ok Cryptfans :mrgreen:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:49 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

ok Cryptfans

damn... you missed the chance to say:
"okay kiddies...... bwahaahhahahah"
:mrgreen:

ianm1225 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:36 am **Post subject:**

No one has posted links on here, but SilenZio has some more new episodes up on Emule. I don't know how to do the links, or I would post them on here. He's got Only Sin Deep and Collection Completed from season 1, and Fitting Punishment and Mute Witness to Murder from season 2. Those are the ones that I haven't seen on Emule before. Just wanted to let everyone know if they didn't already!

avatar · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 11:21 am **Post subject:**

here they are:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.(1x04).Only.Sin.Deep.XviD-SilenZio.avi  [228.19 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.(1x06).Collection.Completed.XviD-SilenZio.avi  [228.20 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.(2x12).Fitting.Punishment.XviD-SilenZio.avi  [228.82 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.(2x15).Mute.Witness.to.Murder.XviD-SilenZio.avi  [228.63 Mb] [Stats]

and two new ones from yours truly: :mrgreen:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.61.(5x09).Creep.Course.DVDRip.by.avatar.avi [232.95 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.62.(5x10).Came.the.Dawn.DVDRip.by.avatar.avi [232.99 Mb] [Stats]

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ianm1225 · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 4:20 pm **Post subject:**

Awesome! Thanks for that, Avatar!

Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 5:18 pm **Post subject:**

thx a lot for all these releases

I will update the thread with them.

As for my rips, be patient! I'll post a few of them at the end of the month

deLockloire · **Posted:** Sat Sep 11, 2004 6:28 pm **Post subject:**

yup, many thx. :beerchug:

avatar · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 4:06 pm **Post subject:**

now this is really strange: together with my first 4 tftc rips i also made this one, but i never posted it here:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.63.(5x11).Oil's.Well.That.Ends.Well.DVDRip.by.avatar.avi [232.97 Mb] [Stats]

please don't ask me how i could forget this.

*edit* furthermore, there are these two which i made for myself since the ones by cryptkeeper could be better. those who haven't downloaded the older versions yet are maybe interested in mine. :wink:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.51.(4x13).Werewolf.Concerto.DVDRip.by.avatar.avi [232.97 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.80.(6x15).You,.Murderer.DVDRip.by.avatar.avi [232.99 Mb] [Stats]

btw, i'm expecting DVDR's of the whole series (93 eps) for next week (got them from ebay). so, after that the ripping will continue. :twisted:

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ianm1225 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2004 11:13 pm **Post subject:**

Quote:

btw, i'm expecting DVDR's of the whole series (93 eps) for next week (got them from ebay). so, after that the ripping will continue.

Hooray! Can't wait for "Only Skin Deep"! Thanks so much for taking the time to post all these!!!

Krug · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:18 am **Post subject:**

avatar wrote:

btw, i'm expecting DVDR's of the whole series (93 eps) for next week (got them from ebay). so, after that the ripping will continue. :twisted:

Don't bother ripping the extras, I already did and I'll be putting those out in about a week...

avatar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:08 pm **Post subject:**

ok , here are the first rips from the DVDRs. now don't expect the same quality as with my last rips. these are tv rips.

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.03.(1x03).Dig.That.Cat...He's.Real.Gone.TVRip.[avatar].avi [232.94 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.05.(1x05).Lover.Come.Hack.To.Me.TVRip.[avatar].avi [233.06 Mb] [Stats]

actually, i already ripped 4 eps. but the last two each show a blurred line at the bottom. so i guess i'm gonna have to use the damned complicated gordian knot again to crop these off. hopefully i can come up with a decent result soon. :roll:

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Bonnie_Parker · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:18 pm **Post subject:**

Thx avatar

I'm leaving for France tomorrow, so I'll be back next week with the rest of season 4 and certainly a few more.
That's beginning to be a really nice collection we got

avatar · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:32 pm **Post subject:**

yeeeeees, and sometime it's gonna be complete!!! :twisted:

btw, i just had a look at GK. and now i'm wondering if there's a possibility to crop these lines off without having to rip the episode again. (spud are you there? :roll:

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spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:10 pm **Post subject:**

cropping is part of the encoding process, you can only crop when encoding.

Decoders allow cropping on the fly, but the effect is pointless and only to hide visual annoyances, as solid areas of colour take a lot of bits, and by having a solid colour area encoded in every frame, the ill effects of cropping mounts up in decreased video bitrate spent on the 'good stuff'

To answer your question, cropping can only be applied before/during encoding. If you mean, you are working from the vobs, then yes, you can crop happily

If you mean crop the end product, no, unfortunately you must re-encode to do that.

avatar · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2004 6:05 pm **Post subject:**

gordian knot is like a box of chocolates. you never know what you're gonna get. :evil:

so i used gk to crop the lines off and the result is not what i expected. sure, the annoying lines are gone bad the overall quality is worse. not much but a bit. moreover, the 2 eps that i ripped came out with a file size of 300 MB and 334 MB. i don't have a clue how this could happen.

then i clearly told the f***ing program to use mp3 vbr. but it creates ac3 cbr.

now, there are two possibilities where i could have made mistakes.

first, something's wrong with the fps (source is NTSC). AutoGK gets 39,415 fr and GK gets 49,269 fr. how to change this i don't know.

second, maybe i shouldn't have chosen "just mux" for audio encoding like the official gordian knot guide says.

what do you think where the problems lie? :roll:

avatar · **Posted:** Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:05 pm **Post subject:**

ok, i've good and bad news. the good news is:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.60.(5x08).Well-Cooked.Hams.TVRip.[avatar].avi [232.81 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.65.(5x13).Till.Death.Do.We.Part.TVRip.[avatar].avi [233.02 Mb] [Stats]

but unfortunately these are the only two eps that i could easily rip with AutoGK since they don't have any annoying lines at the bottom or the sides of the screen. all the other eps which aren't released yet aren't "clean". and i still don't have a clou how to make the damn distortions go away.

GK never ends a rip with the correct filesize (this ranges from 270 to 370 MB where it should be exactly 233MB). at least i got it to create nice rips concerning overall picture quality and sound. then FairUse crops the lines nicely but always creates wrong AR. finally, AutoGK is unable to crop at all, even though i tried the hidden option tool. i can put any parameter for the autocrop function i like, it just does't change a damn thing, at least not in the preview. :evil:

so, until i found a way to crop there won't be any more TFTC eps from me.

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spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:04 am **Post subject:**

well not one for repeating the guides, but you are using 0.30alpha right? And you don't have overhead checked like it says? And you are selecting the "Encode audio at an average..." and entering 128kb/s. I could list a long list of stuff that can course the filesize problems, if you haven't followed the guide correctly.

If you are, then I recently had a problem with xvid codec being saturated, so I had to change the B-frame ratios to both = 1.00, 1.00

Does cripplegk not have the ability to process a avisynth file then? Why not copy and paste the cropping and resize lines from gknot if so

avatar · **Posted:** Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:22 am **Post subject:**

thanks for the advice, spud. but fortunately, the problem is solved. i haven't done anything wrong and tried to do exactly as the guide says. though i had to find out some things that the guide didn't explain clearly or even correctly. eg. when i chose "just mux" GK ripped the audio as AC3 not MP3 VBR.

anyhow, the problem was not GK. i made my peace with it btw and am going to use it more often in the future. the problem had something to do with the Xvid codec, obviously. i deinstalled and deleted everything that had to do with ripping (codecs, programs, settings) and reinstalled the latest versions of GK and Auto GK. now everything works perfectly and i can come up with some glorious results:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.07.(2x01).Dead.Right.TVRip.[avatar].avi  [233.21 Mb] [Stats]

i only checked if there are some new releases on the mule after having done this one. so you can choose between the one by SilenZio and mine:

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.09.(2x03).Cutting.Cards.TVRip.[avatar].avi  [233.37 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.09.(2x03).Cutting.Cards.XviD-SilenZio.avi  [229.36 Mb] [Stats]

ed2k: Tales.from.the.Crypt.10.(2x04).'Til.Death.TVRip.[avatar].avi  [233.39 Mb] [Stats]

ep 08 is being ripped right now and i'll post it afterwards. :mrgreen:

after that i'm gonna wait to release more eps 'til death... i mean 'til i don't see any HHAH clients in my uploadlist anymore... :wink:

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